Writing Things Down Quotes by Benjamin Clementine, Rae Morris, Francis Bacon, Will Hobbs, Antonio Banderas, William Faulkner and many others.
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I’ve written some pretty good ones in my time.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn’t work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don’t think too much. I don’t go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only way you can do anything really good.
I lost my voice. I’d never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
